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VEST helps deaf feel, understand speech
11 Apr 2015
A vest that allows the profoundly deaf to “feel” and understand speech using dozens of embedded actuators that vibrate in specific patterns to represent words is being developed jointly at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine
How Complex Carbon Nanostructures Form
11 Apr 2015
Researchers develop aluminium battery that charges smartphones in a minute
08 Apr 2015
Apart from personal devices, the new aluminum-ion battery, that is both greener and safer, could be used to store renewable energy on the electrical grid
Online illusion: Unplugged, we really aren’t that smart
By By Bill Hathaway | 06 Apr 2015
New camera chip provides superfine 3-D resolution
04 Apr 2015
Imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its integrated 3-D imager, send it to your 3-D printer, and within minutes you have reproduced a replica accurate to within microns of the original object
Curiosity Rover finds biologically useful nitrogen on Mars
01 Apr 2015
A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity Rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments
China plans massive space power station
31 Mar 2015
The futuristic power station would convert the generated electricity to microwaves or lasers and transmit it to a collector on earth
Engineers working to pack more laser beams, and data, into fibre optic strands
30 Mar 2015
As digital traffic soars, researchers strive to send multiple laser beams, each with it’s own data stream, through fibre-optic strands that can only handle a single beam today
Researchers develop artificial hand that performs precise movements
28 Mar 2015
An artificial hand developed by engineers from Saarland University in Germany has sensory properties and is capable of performing extremely precise movements
Analysis sees many promising pathways for solar photovoltaic power
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 28 Mar 2015
New kind of “tandem” solar cell developed
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 27 Mar 2015
Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation